I'm going to continue buying overpriced coffee and bread, continue to drive any of my three gas-guzzling SUV's, and continue hoarding Ben Franklins.

If I see something I want, I'm going to buy it. When someone wants to charge me a fee, raise my rates, or otherwise demand my money, I'm going to pay it. That's how America works: we buy stuff so other people get rich and make better stuff for us to buy.

What you have no healthcare? No groceries? No free stuff? Well too bad! That's because you're poor! You aren't supposed to have anything, you're poor! I don't need to drop out of civilization and convert all of my assets into gold & ammo in order to give YOU the finger.

Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

As I prepare for the royal ass raping in taxes I am about to receive because my wife and I both work for a living to support the scores of lazy, illegal, drug addict users of man, here is how I will prepare...

I'm going to continue buying overpriced coffee and bread, continue to drive any of my three gas-guzzling SUV's, and continue hoarding Ben Franklins.

If I see something I want, I'm going to buy it. When someone wants to charge me a fee, raise my rates, or otherwise demand my money, I'm going to pay it. That's how America works: we buy stuff so other people get rich and make better stuff for us to buy.

What you have no healthcare? No groceries? No free stuff? Well too bad! That's because you're poor! You aren't supposed to have anything, you're poor! I don't need to drop out of civilization and convert all of my assets into gold & ammo in order to give YOU the finger.

I'm going to continue buying overpriced coffee and bread, continue to drive any of my three gas-guzzling SUV's, and continue hoarding Ben Franklins.

If I see something I want, I'm going to buy it. When someone wants to charge me a fee, raise my rates, or otherwise demand my money, I'm going to pay it. That's how America works: we buy stuff so other people get rich and make better stuff for us to buy.

What you have no healthcare? No groceries? No free stuff? Well too bad! That's because you're poor! You aren't supposed to have anything, you're poor! I don't need to drop out of civilization and convert all of my assets into gold & ammo in order to give YOU the finger.

In view of the fact that I work for a living, and am not on the government tit, this sounds more like simple math rather than a temper tantrum.

Quoting: last one

Ultimately, yes, simple math. When disposable income disappears, this is what will happen to everyone. Good by USA, hello USSA.

Quoting: Vold3mort

Funny.... my wife and I just went through our budget and chopped about $600... for the same reasons you have. We know higher taxes are on the way, higher prices for food... and want to make sure we offset these by Jan'13.

Getting ready to pay annual on life insurance and a few other things -- can save some money that way...

I just wish I could end this monthly 'family support' to the Philippines... killing me...

Bachelors in Chemical Engineering and Bachelors in Nursing both paid for in full. Any more questions moron?

Quoting: Vold3mort

One.. how can you be so stupid while having a degree(s)? Oh right, you said you lived in Texas.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 14541046

One degree is mine, the other is my wife's. That's how families work when your EBT card isn't your main source of income. No fucktard, I never said I live in Texas. Guess reading isn't your specialty.

Quoting: Vold3mort

The point remains: how can you be so stupid to think anything you're doing is going to have an effect or any impact whatsoever on the economy? You, your wife, and your child, are a tiny, insignificant, utterly worthless piece in the American puzzle. You are the Pluto of the Universe: there will always be someone, somewhere, to replace you.

But good for you for saving a tiny fraction of money! Seeing as half of those weren't even necessities I'm happy to see you cutting back on some of the "American way." Now hopefully you'll teach your son the important lessons in life (read: logic, fact) that you were denied.

idk...I played video games as a kid. I mean there were 3d shooters back then like doom, but I also played puzzle games where you had to think.

Nowadays it's ALL shooters. I don't see how taking that crap away from the kids could be a bad thing. Who knows, maybe they'll start to read more...

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24883093

Yep, it's called parenting. Your kid should get all different things in moderation, including games. Banning things is what governments do.

Taking away from a kid because daddy is having a tanty, while at the same time keeping his paid GLP account so he can continue to give karma to people and have pictures in his posts like some facebook teenager, is parental failure.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 610727

Bravo OP. I bet your kid could learn a lot by earning the $4 for his or her own X Box fees. These other clowns are the ones who think everything you want you should have no matter who pays for it. they are probably all up to their asses in credit card debt too

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Bob Marley

“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.”THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809)

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. Bruce Lee

Most people simply will end up cutting back expenses for different reasons.

You see reality, and that leads you to these cutbacks.

Others will see a different shade of that reality... the shade where they begin to see their personal wealth evaporate.

They won't notice the political and economic changes that have a global effect. They won't see the corruption and disgusting social engineering getting pumped out of the MSM. They won't see anything outside the tiny little bubble that they live in.

But they'll start to slowly understand that they can't piss away their money on anything they want. It will happen fast for these people because they haven't prepared for this change.

Their bubble will burst once these changes begin... and then they will see reality.

No, it's true. In late stage capitalism, the unequal distribution of wealth begins to undermine society, like a parasite killing the host. That's where we're at now. The parasites are the capitalist class, not the needy underclass.

The economy didn't collapse because of capitalism, it collapsed because of corruption. Capitalism is what built this country from the ground up.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26490972

Explain this corruption to me from Obama. Because on GLP knows that the economy crumbling in 2008 until now was a direct cause of President Bush. People who deny that are Republicans or uneducated individuals who are having a hard time coming out of the closet.

Romney would have been no better in helping solve our debt; hell he wanted to ADD MONEY to our military budget that wasn't even asking for it (do people realize we spend more on our military than the next FIFTEEN countries COMBINED?!)

Romney also mentions how he would have created "12 million new jobs" -- guess what? According to data trends and people who study numbers better than anyone on here, and certainly better than Mitt, have said that if we DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FROM THIS POINT FORWARD, that we would create 12 million new jobs anyway.

I make the same money I did six yrs ago. Before I could afford going out for a drink or dinner....now I can't afford anything! Mine you I had to move two blocks from my job to save on gas....I am now counting and cutting even on my food bill. I have never in my lived like I do now. I am pinching my piggy bank where I save the spare change for emergencies....and even that is not making the cut. I am a very proud american with very strong values that this is a great nation of opportunity...I am so sadden seeing how people are settling for shit and for hand me downs...I looked up to the opportunities this nation offered to become whatever you desired....I am sadden that most are settling for be lower quality of life and be conformed and make excuses that we can't have extras if we work for them, we deserve it after slaving our ass off. They say we can live without the extras...for that I would go to a third world country which I lived in for 13 yrs...once you experience that lower quality of life you realize the greatness of this country and which we take advantage of.I truly think the future of this country is in the hands of people who have no idea that the American dream went down the sewer and that we have to be grateful that we have enough to make it by and have a job that enslaves us. So sad....so many roaches heading toward annihilation...

The economy didn't collapse because of capitalism, it collapsed because of corruption. Capitalism is what built this country from the ground up.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26490972

Capitalism is great at building a society's material wealth, for a while. Capitalism's fatal flaw is the uneven distribution of wealth, which ultimately undermines itself in the end by disrupting the fabric of society. That is why capitalism only works for a while but is ultimately doomed.